Comments on: D-Day: The Beginning of the End for Nazi Germanyhttp://www.historynet.com/d-day-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-nazi-germany.htm
HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines.Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:43:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: Thomas Petershttp://www.historynet.com/d-day-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-nazi-germany.htm#comment-5179121
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:03:00 +0000#comment-5179121While there is no doubt that D-Day was, for the British and American forces, the fight of their lives, a wider look at the European theater would indicate that it was well past the “beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.”

Being pushed out of North Africa, and being badly defeated and pushed out of the Soviet Union, retreating along a thousand mile front, would be a vastly more accurate “beginning of the end”.

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Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:17:00 +0000#comment-5179117Definitely a Soviet perspective on the war. There is no doubt that the Soviets performed admirably and heroically, but here are a few points to consider.

Stalingrad was not a “quick” victory.” It took over five months to defeat Von Paulus. The Nazi’s biggest defeat in Russia was the Battle of Kursk.

Germany was running out of oil because the Americans and British bombed the Ploesti oil fields and deprived Hitler of most of his oil supply.

The thousand plane raids of the Americans and British devastated the German infrastructure and factories. One of those raids dropped more tonnage than the entire tonnage dropped by the Soviet air force.

The Soviet high command (Stalin) entered into a Germany-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which allowed Hitler to invade Poland and begin WWII in Europe. Stalin then ignored warnings from the British that Hitler was about to attack, As a result Soviet forces were practically decimated, and the Soviets retreated hundreds of miles.

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Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:29:00 +0000#comment-5179106The war was all but over when General Zhukov quickly defeated & forced the surrender of Germany’s elite fighting corp (its 6th Army) at Stalingrad. From then on the Germans beat a withering retreat back to Berlin where they were slaughtered in the Halbe Forest & Seelow Heights.

The Nazis ran out of oil; without fuel their airplanes were on the ground, their tanks got abandoned alongside the roads or in fields; their railroads, roads, bridges, & supply routes were destroyed during the countless allied bombing raids on Germany; & they couldn’t feed or provide their troops with needed clothing, supplies, equipment, & munitions; etc. to carry on the War.

The allies systematically firebombed nearly every major production center, bridge, airport, railroad, etc. in Germany with day & night bombing raids.

Germany was surrounded & the allies ruled both the oceans & the air. Nothing could get in, and nothing could get out of Germany.

After the massive destruction of Germany’s production facilities & means of transportation, Germany
couldn’t produce enough needed food & critical supplies & couldn’t effectively transport the meager rations & supplies it could produce. In desperation, Hitler established an emergency supply system, with needed food & supplies going first to soldiers in the field; then to German civilians; next to forced labor; &
last to Jews & prisoners that couldn’t work.

Germans starved in WW1. And with the technological advancements in the instruments of war & the tremendous mismatch in men, resources, & equipment that Germany faced, starvation must have been even greater during the second World War.

The allies reduced 1/3 of Berlin to rubble, leaving nearly 2 million people homeless.

In the final assault on Berlin, Stalin unleashed 41,600 machine guns, 8,983 cannons, 6,250 tanks, and 7,500 bombers on Berlin. The Soviets’ artillery fired 7 million shells into Berlin. The Germans were stunned by the sheer weight & volume of the bombardments. Many were hopelessly demoralized & shaking with fear.

Soviet bombers dropped 40,000 tons of ordinance on Berlin to soften it for the final Soviet assault.

It took over 30 years to rebuild in Germany what the allies had ripped apart with their instruments of war.

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Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:33:14 +0000#comment-3866904It just didn’t help with what you needed but there’s actually a lot of information here.
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Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:14:07 +0000#comment-3841176I know right tl;dr
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Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:05:59 +0000#comment-2214169such a good question
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Fri, 04 Apr 2014 16:55:19 +0000#comment-2199029all the haters who are lazy ask yourself what has the world become and think I contributed to it I am 13 so when your 30 and on the couch remember me
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:49:22 +0000#comment-1043809Helped a lot thanks.
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Thu, 24 May 2012 00:22:31 +0000#comment-803763I have written a book from a first hand account of a Commando who was the first man on Utah Beach in the D-Day invasion. It is 48 pages, 5 1/2 X 8 inches, soft cover, and self-published. You can read an article I published in the Augusta Chronicle http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/06/06/rel_526606.shtml
about this heroic soldier who was awarded the Silver Star by General Eisnehower and the bronze star by General Patton. If you would like a copy, email me at danwhite5868@yahoo.com The Sgt is still living at age 93 and in good health.
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